[HowardC]

I really liked the Wierd Al Show, but even as a kid, it really felt like a poor man's Pee Wee's Playhouse. I mean it was the same format, the same style of art design and wacky characters ect... The only difference was the jokes weren't very subtle, the "lessons" seemed geared towards pre-schoolers, not children, and it lacked the award winning puppetry and claymation animation of the playhouse.

This episode was a prime example... PWPH did a Christmas episode, so TWAS did one as well, but they changed it just enough... and ... well it wasn't quite as good. Seriously a moral about listening to others sounds like it came straight out of Barney and Friends.

Don't misunderstand, the show is fun to watch, just not nearly as fun as Pee Wee. While PWPH had sort of a ageless quality to it, in that the lessons and antics of Pee Wee are charming as you get older, TWAS seems to feel like an adult comedian trying very hard to relate to kids and falling just short of his goal.

Wierd Al is frikkin hilarous though.... you should all go buy his albums.... NOW!